OFW vs. proprietary BIOS

[K. K. Subramaniam]

On Saturday 30 Aug 2008 5:37:07 am Mitch Bradley wrote:
> A lot of the OFW functionality is targeted toward the task of managing a
> large collection of possibly-plug-in I/O devices, then booting a general
> purpose OS.
Like Squeak for example :-). Honestly, I think Squeak makes a very good shell 
for OFW. Primitive calls or device drivers can be easily integrated via 
plugins/FFI. While the same can be done even with asm/gcc, I would expect 
overall dev and testing time to be much smaller with Squeak.

Subbu